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I was just in the process of installing Catalina, guess I'll just click on that "Cancel" button now.
by jorge-d 7y ago
I was just in the process of installing Catalina, guess I'll just click on that "Cancel" button now.
- Diederich 7y agoHuh, does that work? I didn't realize that one could actually revert mid install. Let us know. (:
- rubbingalcohol 7y agoyou can't. once it finishes downloading and reboots into the update screen you can't go back. Catalina seems to at least have broken the ability to create symlinks in the root folder. So no more `cd /htdocs` on my laptop.
- jorge-d 7y agoNot really. I did download the update and got the "Install MacOS Catalina" app. Launching it will run the installer, and you can cancel (see [1]). But yeah once this installer finishes it's probably too late. [1] https://imgur.com/a/EdlitSq https://imgur.com/a/EdlitSq
- prutschman 7y agoI believe you "merely" need to disable SIP, then remount the root partition as read/write.
- elondaits 7y agoUse the CDPATH environment variable and you'll be able to CD to your regularly used directories from anywhere: https://jcode.me/cdpath-with-zsh/ https://jcode.me/cdpath-with-zsh/ much much saner than having your user files in the root directory, and works the same in any OS.
- kbd 7y ago> So no more `cd /htdocs` on my laptop. If you use zsh I recommend using hashed directories. So this in your .zshrc: hash -d htdocs=~/path/to/htdocs Lets you `cd ~htdocs`. Alternatively, use 'fasd' or 'z' and you can just `z htd` without preconfiguring anything or caring where htdocs is. Or, of course, you could just create the symlinks in your $HOME instead of in root.
- twodave 7y agoYeah, this is a big reason why I read hacker news. Laptop started bugging me about Catalina and after reading this article I changed my thought process from, “I guess I’ll do that this weekend” to, “I guess I am going to disable automatic updates in every way I can.”